Port Blair, Feb 15: The Department of Social Welfare, A &N Administration has launched a new programme namely ‘Poshan Mitra’, a vital initiative aimed at combating severe malnutrition among children with the support of general public.

The Poshan Mitra program is an additional effort to address the pressing issue of malnutrition through community participation especially through volunteers, who can assist the severely malnourished children by donating nutritional items like dalia, date syrup, ghee, protein powder, green gram, ground nut worth Rs 1000/- per month to a severe malnutrition among children in the following manner.

-The items mentioned above only may be provided and no cooked food will be accepted. The volunteers may note that no fund rising may be done citing this purpose.

-The items for Poshan Kit should be handed over to CDPOs for verification.

-Only those children who are found malnourished as per the CDPOs report may be given Poshan Kit.

- Poshan Mitra to purchase the Poshan Kit for the malnourished children from open market.

-Packed raw material must be checked for expiry date /best before use by date.

-There shall not be any political, religious, caste related literature in the Poshan Kit.

-All items should be securely packed in a basket and covered in proper way.

For further information, interested persons may contact the Directorate of Social Welfare (03192-232075), CDPOs of Urban, Attam Pahar (9434269836), Ferrargunj (9434274365), Rangat (9679597082), Diglipur (9474267952) & Nicobar (9434284578) project.